Internal Improvements. 



When it is considered, therefore, that nature has 

 formed four important and safe outlets, for the trade of 

 the western part of New York, all of which unite at 

 our state line ; that whatever difficulties exist in New 

 York, its citizens offer to remove ; and that the pre- 

 sent state of the Susquehanna alone opposes the entrance 

 into our state of all the produce conveyed by those 

 outlets ; it surely is not only surprising but shameful, 

 that Pennsylvania should have representatives so igno- 

 rant or regardless of her interests, as not to have heark- 

 ened to the admonition of Mr. Church, and proceeded 

 at once to improve our own waters. 



No doubt, Mr. Church and the other residents in 

 the western part of New York, would prefer aiding the 

 trade of the city of New York, and not that of Phila- 

 delphia, if they could do so as cheaply and convenient- 

 ly ; but, as that gentleman said, *' the Susquehanna is 

 the natural course through which we should go, that 

 route is shorter and cheaper than by the turnpike road 

 to Catskill or Newburgh ; clear your river, and you 

 will command the whole of our trade." 



But Pennsylvania has as yet done nothing, and there- 

 fore Mr. Church and others have abandoned the works, 

 which they had begun, for opening a communication 

 between the Susquehanna and the lakes, and are now 

 actively engaged in improving the roads from the west- 

 ern counties to the Hudson. For one road alone Mr. 

 Church subscribed to the amount of 13,750 dollars, a 

 fact, which shows the enterprize and ability of this gen- 

 tleman, and the supineness of our legislature in not 

 adopting the useful suggestions which he offi^red to 

 them. In consequence of this narrow policy, the trade 



